This week in
KDE-CVS-Digest: Improvements and bugfixes to the new tab code used
in Konqueror and now Quanta Plus, numerous
usability enhancements in KMail including easier keyboard shortcut
editing and flickering toolbars fixed, KDE Print gets a new PPD parser,KStars hardware interface is
extended, and more. Enjoy.

This is optimal even if the bug goes away in CVS it boots tracks problems and resolutions. It also make sure we dont find a million bugs the day after release. You guys using CVS should have bugs.kde.org as your home page!

If you're running HEAD (the main development trunk of KDE's CVS) then you really can't complain about things being broken; in fact I guarantee that they often will be. That's why it's not released. ;-)

And I think this is sometimes misunderstood, but HEAD is not a toy or something just to see what's coming in the future -- if you're running HEAD you should (a) be willing to find and fix things when they're broken and annoy you, (b) be willing to file and follow up bug reports or at the very minimum (c) keep quiet about what annoys you if you're not willing to help to fix it. ;-)

People add features, which (sometimes) make KDE better, but they also sometimes break things. The original poster was right. If you're running HEAD, it is certain to have bugs, and sometimes not even to compile. It's up to you to help fix that, by filing well-written bug reports at http://bugs.kde.org/.

The commits listed in the digest are about 7-10% of the totals. I would say about half the total commits are finishing touches, minor though important corrections. Maintenance type stuff. Translations, web page maintenance, etc. Of the other half, developers typically do multiple commits for the same feature they are working on. Work in progress. I those situations, I select one or two that have the best representative comments.

So, what you read in the digest is only a small part of the action. Hopefully it gives an idea of what is happening, but it is not everything, nor is it meant to be.

Sorry to ask but:
I think I can remember that some time ago when I saved a document
via FTP KIO, it was uploaded immediately back. Now, the document
is saved locally and only when I close it, I'm asked if I want to
upload it back. How can I get back the original behaviour? Or do
I remember incorrectly and it was like that all the time?

I can confirm this. Sadly, if I do Alt+F2 and type www.kde.org, first the page is saved into my disk and then loaded by konqueror. This is really annoying, since the images are not cached, and therefore only the text is shown.

I just tested this. The CVS version is from Friday night (night in UK ;-), so this might be fixed by now.

Did anybody tried to compile HEAD on FreeBSD recently?
It requires automake17, but it's port is broken, when I installed it manually and start compilation it breaks after some time (after configure in middle of the compilation of kdelibs) with error
libtool: cannot find library `'
Did somebody have solution about ?

I'd love to see Red Hat 8/9-compatible RPM releases of KDE's bleeding-edge branch available for download on a regular basis, similar to Mozilla's nightly binary build system. Maybe twice a month? That'd be really neat for us more adventurous KDE followers. Or is anyone already distributing such snapshots? Of course, I'd love to see KDE.org do it - I trust KDE.org; with any other source I'd have to wonder about malicious modifications to the source.

Well, I could easily build KDE on RedHat on my own, too - of course, Gentoo's Portage greatly simplifies the task. I'm aware of that. Still, I'm specifically asking for binary releases because of the long build times. As far as I know, RedHat 8/9 are LSB certified, which pretty much means a RH8/9 compatible RPM release should work for serveral other distros, too, right?

BTW, I know RedHat's not the most KDE-friendly distribution. Getting arts/Noatun to play back MP3s was quite an ordeal. However, I understand the reasons, and apart from that, RedHat is a fine, highly polished distribution. (Still, I had a lot of fun with my first Gentoo installation - at the time, I was just new to Linux and learned a great deal about it during the installation process. Gentoo + Google taught me what packages I really need and for what reasons, while a RedHat/SuSE is quite overwhelming for a newbie.)

I think requests for binaries for commercial distributions should go to the commercial distributions, it should be their service for which they get money and reputation. In any case KDE itself never offered binaries anyway (see http://www.kde.org/download/packagepolicy.php ).

Another very KDE friendly distro is SuSE. If you want to drop the $70 at a CompUSA or other common software store for the Professional version, you get a full desktop with commercial DVD authoring software and other goodies. Good stuff.